Aria Maestosa – is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views. Aria Maestosa runs on Mac OS X 10.4+ (PPC and Intel), Windows XP+ and Linux (Alsa).(Mac/PC/Linux)
Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files. The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it. Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file. (Mac/PC/Linux)
Stretch & Squash – Does exactly what it says on the tin. Basically, a sine wave is used to modulate the speed at which the input signal is played back at (i.e. stretching and squashing the audio). To do this, a buffer is employed, which also allows the input audio to be output in reverse. (PC/VST)
MIDI-Controlled ADSR – It’s a simple ADSR envelope (acting on the input audio) that’s triggered by MIDI notes. It’s probably most useful in a modular environment. (PC/VST)
Rndwave is a Wave Shape Generator that enables you to create (and export as.wav) original wave shapes for use in wave player synths (or any other.wav supporting application/plug-in (PC/VST)
Expert Sleepers Latency fixer – The plug-in reports to the host application that it has a latency (controlled by the plug-in parameters) but does not actually apply any processing to the audio signal. This causes the host to use its own latency compensation to advance the audio fed into the plug-in by the requested amount. This is useful to compensate for e.g. routing audio via outboard effect processors, where the audio’s journey out of your audio interface and back in to the computer introduces a latency into the signal. (PC/Mac/VST/AU)
VDumper is a sampling and multi-effect rack which allows you to create multi-samples from VSTi plug-ins and external devices with ease. (PC/VST)
Noise Reduction – The Noise Reduction plugin is based on a spectral gate to filter out unwanted noise in the frequency domain. The gate is based on the lightweight dynamic series and features a soft knee and customizable attack and release times. (PC/VST)
Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files. The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it. Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file. (Mac/PC/Linux)
Stretch & Squash – Does exactly what it says on the tin. Basically, a sine wave is used to modulate the speed at which the input signal is played back at (i.e. stretching and squashing the audio). To do this, a buffer is employed, which also allows the input audio to be output in reverse. (PC/VST)
MIDI-Controlled ADSR – It’s a simple ADSR envelope (acting on the input audio) that’s triggered by MIDI notes. It’s probably most useful in a modular environment. (PC/VST)
Rndwave is a Wave Shape Generator that enables you to create (and export as.wav) original wave shapes for use in wave player synths (or any other.wav supporting application/plug-in (PC/VST)
Expert Sleepers Latency fixer – The plug-in reports to the host application that it has a latency (controlled by the plug-in parameters) but does not actually apply any processing to the audio signal. This causes the host to use its own latency compensation to advance the audio fed into the plug-in by the requested amount. This is useful to compensate for e.g. routing audio via outboard effect processors, where the audio’s journey out of your audio interface and back in to the computer introduces a latency into the signal. (PC/Mac/VST/AU)
VDumper is a sampling and multi-effect rack which allows you to create multi-samples from VSTi plug-ins and external devices with ease. (PC/VST)
Noise Reduction – The Noise Reduction plugin is based on a spectral gate to filter out unwanted noise in the frequency domain. The gate is based on the lightweight dynamic series and features a soft knee and customizable attack and release times. (PC/VST)
- Big Tick Audio Rainbow- Thanks to an original mixture of FM, AM, additive and substractive synthesis, Rainbow is able to produce a wide assortment of sounds, from analog emulations or synthesized drums to 80’s electric pianos or synth basses.
Each voice features up to 4 oscillators, with a variety of classic waveforms (Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle, Noise). These waveforms can be modified in a number of ways, including variable distortion waveshaper and rectification. (PC/VST)
- U-he Tyrell Nexus 6 – The Tyrell Nexus 6 plug-in was programmed by Urs Heckmann (mastermind of u-he) for Amazona.de. This is a virtual analog software synthesizer: the sound engine is circuit-modeled and is similar to the u-he “ACE”. The features are those that we may expect from a vintage synthesizer like the Juno series from Roland. (PC/MAC/VST/AU)
- Image Line Autogun- Enter an amazing and unexplored sonic universe, armed only with Autogun, search 4294967296 (Four Billion Two Hundred Ninety Four Million Nine Hundred Sixty Seven Thousand Two Hundred Ninety Six) presets for their acoustic potential. With so many presets Autogun needs no programming, every sound is already somewhere ‘out there’ you just need to locate it, and you will, Autogun’s sonic landscape is a sonic adventure. (PC/VST)
- Ugo Audio Rez 2.0 Rez is a seemingly basic synth, but it’s capable of a very wide range of sounds. While Rez has a bunch of cool features, the beating heart of Rez is its filter. It’s made from multiple chained filters acting as a single powerful filter and it’s highly resonant, providing Rez with its distinctive character. Top that off with distortion, a phaser, various oscillator modulations, delay, and a killer programmable arp and step sequencer, and you’ve got a powerhouse of a synth in a very small package. (PC/MAC/VST/AU)
- Yellow Tools Independence Free 2.5 Independence is the ultimate yellow tools software sampler. It combines the technologies of Virtual Instruments, premium sound libraries and workstation workflow in one single creative software solution. (PC/VST)
- Krakli Software S3B – The S3B is great for textures and pads, it features some very expressive and dynamic sounds that is great for ambient, downtempo, electronica and trance producers.(PC/VST)
- Obertone Audio Physix – PhysiX does true physical modelling using the “nodes and mass model”. It simulates up to 64 nodes per voice and “true physical inter-modulation coupling” (one swinging wave affects the behaviour of the others). (PC/VST)
- Symptohm:Melohman Performer Edition- This is a simplified version of Ohm Force’s Symptohm:Melohman power-synth, especially made for live use – but also handy in the studio. The core of the synth, its oscillators and all the filters, are there: it’s the same audio engine as the ‘normal’ version. The only difference is that they’re all already programmed / fixed for each one of the (up to 1200) patches from Symptohm’s sound library, the result being a simple and straight forward interface.(PC/MAC/VST/AU/RTAS)
- Sources : http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/vst-plugins/effect-plugins/
- http://www.bnro.de/~feilei/obertone-homepage/vst2.html
- http://www.krakli.com/krakli-free-synths/
- http://www.yellowtools.com/
- http://www.bigtick-audio.com/goodies/rainbow
- http://www.amazona.de/freeware-synth-tyrell-n6-youtube-tutorial-cool/
- http://ariamaestosa.sourceforge.net/http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/sands.htm
- see Links Above